Understanding the work of poetry and place
Joy Harjo’s Catching the Light offers short vignettes on the meaning of language, poetry, and place, taking us to a realm between ordinary reality and artistic vision.
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Helping neighbors in need
We were a community then, and Tommy remembered.
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Poet Alora Young makes a triumphant debut with Walking Gentry Home
In Walking Gentry Home, poet Alora Young crafts a family history from the stories passed down through generations.
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Toil and Trouble surveys witchy history
In Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult, Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson profile religious leaders, entertainers, psychic mediums, healers, activists, and more, from Puritan New England to the witch-friendly grounds of social media today.
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A close look at death helps a boy grab hold of life
Kristin O’Donnell Tubb’s The Decomposition of Jack features a boy whose daily chores include the collection of roadkill. It’s a slightly gross, very funny, sweetly poignant story about so much more than death. Tubb will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on October 26.
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Jon Meacham highlights Abraham Lincoln’s moral code in a new, essential biography
Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham continues his exploration of moral leadership and America’s search for a more perfect union in And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. Meacham will discuss the book at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville on October 23.
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